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• Directory:Missouri
  ...rovided for the admission of [[Directory:Maine|Maine]] as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in the following year. Jefferson City is the capital and S ...Independence, Missouri; and by 1845, Kansas City, Missouri. Independence, Missouri was the most popular "jumping off" point on the Oregon Trail.
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• Directory:Get the Facts on Herbal Supplements/Hawthorn
  ...<a href="http://www.dmh.missouri.gov/hcph/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.dmh.missouri.gov/hcph/</a><br><br>3. <a href="http://www.cancer.gov/Templates/db_alpha.a
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• Directory:Iowa
  .... Part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Iowa was organized as a separate territory in 1838. The Mound Builders lived in the area in prehistoric times. Des Moi ...a, and Sioux tribes lived along the Mississippi River. The Omaha, Oto, and Missouri tribes lived in the western part of the state.
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• Directory:South Dakota
  .... Acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, the region became part of the Dakota Territory in 1861 and was split off from [[Directory:North Dakota|North Dakota]] at t ...he first permanent settlement, was established in 1817. In 1831, the first Missouri River steamboat reached the fort.
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• Directory:Nebraska
  ...ited States through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and was made a separate territory by the [[Directory:Kansas|Kansas]]-Nebraska Act of 1854. Its present bounda Steamboating on the Missouri River, initiated in 1819, brought business to the river ports of Omaha and
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• Directory:Louisiana
  ...(later the Territory of Louisiana and the [[Directory:Missouri|Missouri]] Territory). Baton Rouge is the capital and New Orleans the largest city. Population: ...Louisiana (later Missouri Territory), north of the 33rd parallel; and the Territory of Orleans, south of the parallel.
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• Directory:Oklahoma
  ...1890 as the Oklahoma Territory, which was merged with the adjoining Indian Territory to form the present state boundaries. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s forced man ...t was established at Salina by the Chouteau family of St. Louis before the territory was transferred to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, but
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• Directory:Idaho
  ...t Britain and the United States from 1818 to 1846. Idaho became a separate territory in 1863. Boise is the capital and the largest city. Population: [[Populatio ...r traders from St. Louis penetrated the mountains, and Andrew Henry of the Missouri Fur Company established a post near present-day Rexburg, the first American
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• Directory:Arkansas
  ...s acquired by the United States, and, in 1819, Arkansas was organized as a territory. Its northern, eastern and southern borders were the same as they are now, By 1836, the Arkansas Territory had the 60,000 residents required to become a state, and after writing an a
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• Directory:North Dakota
  ...der treaty with Great Britain (1818), the region became part of the Dakota Territory in 1861. It was set off from [[Directory:South Dakota|South Dakota]] when s ...amer, the Yellowstone, inaugurated steamboat travel on the turbulent upper Missouri in 1832. Additional transportation was provided by the supply caravans of R
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• Directory:Kansas
  ...admitted as the 34th state in [[Year Admitted:=1861|1861]]. Organized as a territory by the Kansas-[[Directory:Nebraska|Nebraska]] Act of 1854, it became a virt ...rriors destroyed the fort a year later. In 1762 France ceded the Louisiana territory to Spain. In 1800, the Treaty of Madrid gave the land back to France.
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• Directory:James Monroe
  ...tion of [[Florida]] (1819); the [[Missouri Compromise]] (1820), in which [[Missouri]] was declared a slave state; and the profession of the [[Monroe Doctrine]] ...state with [[Maine]], a free state, and barring slavery north and west of Missouri forever.
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• Directory:New Mexico
  ...the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. The original territory (established 1850) included [[Directory:Arizona|Arizona]] and part of [[Dir ...nts down the Santa Fe Trail to occupy New Mexico, which became an American territory. An 1847 revolt by Mexican loyalists precipitated battles at Santa Cruz and
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• Directory:Montana
  ...s among other western territories, the region was organized as the Montana Territory in 1864. Helena is the capital and Billings the largest city. Population: [ ...1846. At various times, parts of Montana were in territories of Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...ond-largest expansion of the nation's territory. Polk secured the [[Oregon Territory]] (including Washington, Oregon and Idaho), amounting to about 285,000 squa ...ouri]], but allow it below that line if approved by eligible voters in the territory.
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...83. The short-lived state of Franklin (1784-1788) formed the basis for the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio (1790) and the later state of ...capital at Knoxville. It was the first state to be carved out of national territory.
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• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  In Congress, he opposed the entrance of [[Texas]] as a [[Slave state|slave territory]]. He came in second place in the bid for [[Speaker of the United States H ...s of [[Henry Clay]] as well as the opponents of slavery extension into the territory gained by the [[U.S.-Mexican War]]. A group of practical Whig politicians n
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...by his vote, in January 1820, for a resolution opposing the admission of [[Missouri]] as a slave state (though he himself was a slave owner). In the same year, ...1838 from Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and South Carolina to the Oklahoma territory. Van Buren was determined to avoid war.
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  | predecessor2= None ([[Spain|Spanish territory]]) ...ther to place a force in Florida adequate at once to the protection of her territory ... or cede to the United States a province, of which she retains nothing b
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• Directory:Maine
  ...en, Massachusetts had bought up most of the land claims in this wilderness territory, an arrangement which lasted until 1820 when Maine separated from Massachus ...r.. This arrangement allowed Maine to join the Union as a free state, with Missouri entering a year later as a slave state, thereby preserving the numerical ba
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